Grade 2 (review in grade 3) · 2.NBT.7 · sheet 16 of 30

Three-digit subtraction with regrouping

A printable worksheet, new every day, with a key that names the mistake.

  • Twenty problems across every borrow shape: none, ones only, tens only, both, and the across-zero ones like 302 − 167.
  • Zeros are where subtraction goes wrong in five different ways. The key names each one from the answer your child wrote.
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Three-digit subtraction with regrouping

Show your work. A zero has nothing to lend: go one more column left.

Name Date
  1. 1
    763 −287
  2. 2
    702 −412
  3. 3
    354 −296
  4. 4
    290 −227
  5. 5
    404 −287
  6. 6
    821 −640
  7. 7
    920 −591
  8. 8
    632 −361
  9. 9
    560 −172
  10. 10
    208 −138
  11. 11
    503 −495
  12. 12
    903 −235
  13. 13
    974 −168
  14. 14
    682 −572
  15. 15
    430 −214
  16. 16
    268 −179
  17. 17
    448 −285
  18. 18
    656 −455
  19. 19
    603 −556
  20. 20
    901 −491
Cardinal Math · sheet 16 key: cardinalmath.com/worksheets/borrowing-3d/16/key/

The app does this live.

It picks the next problem from the last answer, skips ahead or doubles back, and animates a hundred bursting into tens and a ten into ones instead of telling your child to cross something out. The five-minute check on the guide is the same engine in your browser, and the guide explains each of the patterns the key names.

How to use the key

Mark the sheet against the key. Beside each answer it lists what the known mistakes would have written. One wrong answer is a slip. The same pattern three times is a rule your child is following, and the guide says what to do about it tonight.

On this sheet the key can tell apart: borrows, but never pays (18 problems), smaller from larger (18 problems), zero minus a number is the number (7 problems), zero minus a number is zero (7 problems), borrowing through a zero (4 problems).

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